Take advantage of API key authentication to control the access of applications and services to your Web APIs in ASP.NET Core.

The following piece of code shows how you can host a Web API that listens to port 8080.

Everyone appreciates good documentation -- when they need it, anyway -- but creating and maintaining that documentation sure feels like a chore sometimes. I've been researching Web API documentation ...

As you can see, creating an application that self-hosts its own ASP.NET Web API server is a relatively trivial thing to do. And once you lay the groundwork for it, writing code for it is almost ...